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What Does Typosquatting Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n

Typosquatting is a questionable technique used by a cybersquatter to attract website traffic by redirecting common typos of popular search terms or major websites to their own sites.<\/p>\n

Cybersquatters may try to sell products, install malware on a user's machine or even make an opposing political statement. The extreme version of typosquatting is similar to phishing, where an impostor website mimics a real site, thus providing the user with a false impression that he or she has accessed the correct web page.<\/p>\n

Typosquatting is also referred to as URL hijacking.<\/p>\n

Techopedia Explains Typosquatting<\/span><\/h2>\n

An example of this is when Google is misspelled as "Goggle.com" or "Googlee.com." In either instance, the user clearly wants to get to Google, not the typosquatter's website.<\/p>\n

Domain names that are proper nouns such as people's or company names are often misspelled and are therefore also often exploited by typosquatters. In order to sue, those who own the real website must prove that the similar domain name is being used in bad faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What Does Typosquatting Mean? Typosquatting is a questionable technique used by a cybersquatter to attract website traffic by redirecting common typos of popular search terms or major websites to their own sites. Cybersquatters may try to sell products, install malware on a user's machine or even make an opposing political statement. 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